Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin

Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin

A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It moves through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife and the setting up of a new household. While using the diary as a source, the author goes beyond its narrative to the inner man, at the same time revealing life as a young man in Restoration London. Explored within are Pepys' relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts and his agonies and delights.

Claire Tomalin has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times. She has written five highly acclaimed biographies most recently JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE. Claire Tomalin lives in Camden Town, London with her husband Michael Frayn.

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ISBN 13	9780670885688
ISBN 10	0670885681
Title	Samuel Pepys
Author	Claire Tomalin
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2002-10-03
Number of pages	544
Prizes	Winner of Samuel Pepys Award 2003, Winner of Whitbread Prize (Biography) 2002, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 2002, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2002, Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2003, Short-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2003
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